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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims International Organization for
Migration ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** VIII.
Special Protection Measures [DOC] Committee on the Rights
of the Child CRC -- NGO Commentaries to the Initial Report of the Kyrgyz
Republic on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, January 03, 2000 www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.24/kyrgystanNGOreport.doc [accessed 12 June
2011] [page 26] C. CHILDREN SUFFERING
EXPLOITATION (INCLUDING ISSUES OF PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RECOVERY AND
SOCIAL REINTEGRATION) - Prostitution is a serious and
growing social problem in the There are young
women and children, some as young as 11 or 12, traveling regularly in trains
for great distance with different mail companions. They provide sexual services
before being left at a terminus station. On arrival at the train’s
destination point, the abandoned children become street children for a day or
two until they find another traveling customer. (Peter Blackley,
SCF) ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country Monitoring
Report
[PDF] Vykintas Lideikis,
ECPAT International, 2012 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A4A_V2_CA_KYRGYZSTAN.pdf [accessed 2
September 2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in
Kyrgyzstan. The report looks at protection mechanisms, responses, preventive
measures, child and youth participation in fighting SEC, and makes
recommendations for action against SEC. Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 state.gov/reports/2017-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/kyrgyz-republic/ [accessed 2
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The criminal code prohibits the sale of children, child
trafficking, child prostitution and child pornography, as well as other
sexual crimes against children. The law criminalizes the sale of persons and
forced prostitution and provides penalties for conviction of up to 15 years
in prison if the victim is a child. The law also makes it a crime to involve
someone in prostitution by violence or the threat of violence, blackmail,
destroying or damaging property, or fraud. The criminal code
prohibits the distribution of child pornography and the possession of child
pornography with the intent to distribute. The law does not specifically
define child pornography, and the criminal code does not fully criminalize
computer-related use, access to child pornography online, or simple
possession of child pornography. According to
UNICEF, children under age 18 in Bishkek were involved in prostitution.
Although precise figures were not known, police stated that typical cases of
child prostitution involved young girls from rural areas who relocated to
Bishkek for educational opportunities or to flee from an abusive family
environment. Once in the capital, they entered the sex trade due to financial
pressures. There were allegations of law enforcement officials’ complicity in
human trafficking; police officers allegedly threatened, extorted, and raped
child sex-trafficking victims. The government reportedly has not investigated
allegations of government employees complicit in human trafficking offenses. Under the criminal
code, it is illegal for persons ages 18 and older to have sexual relations
with someone under age 16. 2018 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2019 www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2018/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 2
September 2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 701] Although the Kyrgyz
Republic has programs that target child labor, the scope of these programs is
insufficient to fully address the extent of the problem, particularly in
commercial sexual exploitation as a result of human trafficking and in
agriculture, including cultivating cotton. Reports suggest
Kyrgyz police officers sexually exploit female trafficking victims, including
some younger than age 18. Concerns persist about police misconduct, including
allegations that police threaten and extort sex trafficking victims, including
minors, and reports indicate that police accept bribes from alleged
traffickers to drop cases. (4) Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 1 October 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/kyrgyzstan2004.html [accessed 17
February 2011] [61] The Committee
is concerned that the recommendations made upon consideration of the State party’s
initial report with regard to the involvement of children in sexual
exploitation have not been fully implemented. The Committee is also concerned
about the health risks posed to children who are sexually exploited and/or
trafficked. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International,
November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13
September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report by Special
Rapporteur
[DOC] UN Economic and
Social Council Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, 6 January
2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 12 June
2011] [50] [51] In 2001, the
Kyrgyz Government launched “New Generation”, a National Plan of Action for
Children’s Rights, and in April 2002 launched a National Program on the
Elimination of Human Trafficking and Sale of People, aiming at the prevention
of these violations, improvement of law-enforcement bodies and migration
structures, and assistance and rehabilitation for victims to return to their
countries. The Plan for Children’s Rights does not include
provisions related to sale of children, child prostitution or child pornography,
and the National Program launched in 2002 does not include special provisions
for children. There is a lack of data as to the number of children
involved in sale, trafficking, prostitution and pornography, and data about
relevant prosecutions is not made available to civil society on the grounds
of State secrecy. National
Consultation on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) ECPAT International,
Bishkek, 24 October 2005 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 June
2011] Increasingly
vulnerable children represent a potential source of income for various forms of
individual and organized criminality that over the past few years have
enormously increased their activities and turnover by exploiting young
victims through prostitution; trafficking for sexual and other purposes; and
child pornography. ECPAT: Situational
Analysis of the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children [PDF] ECPAT International,
in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Public Opinion “El Pikir”, Bishkek, 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 June
2011] [7.2]
SCOPE AND DYNAMICS OF CSEC - The percentage of prostituted children in Bishkek is
estimated by the respondents quite realistically: 5-10%. Girls are more
likely than boys to be involved in sexual exploitation. In spite of the fact
that girls as young as 11 years old work, there is a greater demand for girls
who are 14 years old and above. There is also a constant, though relatively
small, demand for virgins. Focus On Street
Children In Bishkek UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, Bishkek, 6 July 2001 www.irinnews.org/report/14829/kyrgyzstan-irin-focus-on-street-children-in-bishkek [accessed 13 March
2015] The fact is that many
of the children on the street today are working to support their families,
because their parents’ income no longer suffices. Many work as porters, or sell newspapers,
flowers or candy, or wash cars in the streets. There have also been
incidences of child prostitution. Country
Overviews Childhood Poverty
Research and www.childhoodpoverty.org/index.php?action=countryo#25 [accessed 12 June
2011] International
Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) Report - Kyrgyzstan
- [PDF] IHF www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/46924469d.pdf [accessed 12 June
2011] [page 12] RIGHTS OF THE CHILD - Thousands of children lived in the
streets, supporting themselves from begging. Moreover, according to the
newspaper Vecherniy Bishkek and other sources, some
200,000 children did not attend school. Instead, many were working in bazaars
or as street vendors, while many survived on stealing. Child prostitution was
widespread, with young girls being subjected to beating and group rapes. Law
enforcement officials sometimes caught street children and ill-treated them
in order to make them “confess” offenses they had not committed, in order to
boost police detection rates of crimes. Rights
of the Child in Kyrgyzstan [PDF] Ramazan Dyryldaev
and Séverine Jacomy, The
Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights -- A report prepared for the Committee on
the Rights of Child, Geneva, February 2004 www.omct.org/files/2005/09/3074/report_children_kyrgyzstan_eng.pdf [accessed 28 January
2016] 5c. SEXUAL ABUSE, TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION
- Indeed, child prostitution is thriving in A recent field
investigation was carried out by IWPR, in four of the five Central Asian
republics, on the phenomenon of child prostitution .
The research confirmed that child prostitution is widespread in “IWPR heard reports
of corruption in both the judiciary and the police. In addition, where
law-enforcement agencies are doing their best to protect minors in the sex
trade, they are often badly under-resourced. (…) Madina,
who is now 16, agreed to be interviewed about her life as a prostitute in
return for 350 soms. She described how her regular
clients include police officers, and local officials who employ her when
important visitors are in town. “I have accompanied the judge to picnics in
the mountains several times,” said Madina. “My
friend came with me - she was with the prosecutor - and some police officers
came with us. They had their automatics with them and they even let me do some
shooting.” Children from poor and abusive families are obviously the most
vulnerable, including girls from rural areas that are directly recruited by
pimps who promises great financial reward for
temporary involvement. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - KYRGYZSTAN [PDF] ECPAT International,
2008 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-KYRGYSTAN.pdf [accessed 12 June
2011] The Centre for the
Study of Public Opinion El Pikir - the lead agency
of the ECPAT affiliate in The Department of
Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/kyrgyz-republic.htm [accessed 29 November
2010] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are reported to work as prostitutes in
urban areas throughout the country. The Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61657.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– A flourishing
commercial sex industry exploited girls as young as age 10 from destitute
mountain villages. All
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